This is John Batchel, speaking to General Blaine Holt, United States Air Force, retired,

about the downing of two F-15s in a bunch over one part of the battlefield.

What does this mean about the capability of the adversary?

What does this mean about the weapon systems not used but needed now?

Blaine has a comprehensive answer here and also speaks to how tactics will change immediately.

More of this tonight.

It could be a little bit of both because, you know, the weapons, menus, and the things that the world knows that we have is very different

from what we have on the sidelines that could be brought to bear, whether it's still in a

prototypical phase or has been tested, but we really don't need anybody understanding that we have

it. We've seen a little bit of these things. The president lovingly

tries to refer to something in Venezuela as a discombobulator. But there's other weapons we have as

well. Will we change tactics in our air campaign? I imagine that we will. I don't think you'll see

any more air refueling near or over Iran until we sort out

the air dominance question. Do we still maintain air superiority? Do we still have air dominance?

So we'll look at the sortie counts. And if we have a drop-off and then a ramp back up,

then I think that's what's happened. But time will tell about how we've adjusted.

I can tell you that the air campaign changed the second that that F-15 got shot down.